Water
Week 3 of SciArt September 2025
Weeks One: Lands and Two: Species are linked here and below. This week I found embroideries to fit all but one of the prompts using a few detail shots.
Day 15: spawning
My winter night night mitosis sampler (2024) contains two meanings of spawning: it's a human reproductive cell creating our spawn, and the cytoplasm looks a bit like spawning fish.
Day 16: rift
A photograph of the cranial sutures—a sort of bone rift—on the ethically sourced fox skull in my studio.
Day 17: trawl
A detail of the abdominal vagal nerves in my SciArt embroidery the wandering ghost (2024). It looks a bit like a trawling net.
Day 18: cenote
My SciArt embroidery woman in skull (2016) imagines the inner lower half of the human skull as a sort of cave.
Day 19: depths
A detail of some of the text on my SciArt embroidery of the iliac vein: deep dilation (2024).
Day 20: glacial
My current work-in-progress which I started in February. #Embroidery is a glacial art.
Day 21: reef
I embroidered this coral-like piece to teach myself tambour embroidery in 2016.
Oh Lia, your work is just so beautiful and compelling!
Wow, just stumbled upon your newsletter and I've fallen in love with your work. I've been drawn to embroidery for a long time. And your depictions of the anatomy of land and bodies are breathtaking.